Bottle-washing machine.



PAtafENTBD APR. 11, 1905.- GLW. DESOBRY.

.BOTTLE WASHING MACHINE.

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'PATENTED APR. 11, 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

cHARLEs w. DEsoRRY. oE INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, AssIcNoR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, oE rwo-rHIRDs ro EARLE o. PERRY, oF .IEEEERsoNvILLE' INDIANA.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentI No. 786,877, dated April 11, 1905. Application iled December 28, 1903. Serial No. 186,915.

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Be it known that I, CHARLES W. DEsoBRY, of Indianapolis, county of Marion, and State' The object of this invention is to provide`ajrapid mechanism for washing milk-bottles and the like.

The idea consists in placing the milk-bottles or the like in cases-say a dozen bottles to each case-whereby they maybe carried or transported or held while washing, and placing the same in themachine and moving the entire case so as to bring all thebottles simultaneously to a series of rotary brushes submergediu water. These and the other improvements contained in this invention will be understood from theaccompanying drawings and the following description and claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of the bottle-Washing machine with a rinser and sterilizer attached on line 1 1 of Fig. 2. Fig..2 isa plan view of what is shown in Fig. 1, the device being 'adapted for washing a single carrier full of bottles. side elevation .of .the carriage in which a case of bottles is placed and moved into and out of the washing-machine. Fig. 4 is a transverse section on'the line 4 4 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is an end elevation. of the bottle-carrier. Fig. 6 is a plan view of the washing-machine arranged for washing the bottles in two carriers at the same time. Fig. 7 is a horizontal section on` the line 7 7 of Fig. 4. Fig. 8 is a front elevation of the carriage... Fig. 9 is a side elevation of the bottle-carrier. Fig. 10 is a plan viewthereof. Fig. 11- is a detail view of the detachable mounting of the brush-'carrying plate.

In detail a tank 10 is provided forcontaining the water in which the-bottles are to lbe washed, and it and the mechanism mounted in it constitute the bottle-washing machine.

- 11 is a rinsing-machine in juxtaposition With Fig. 3 is a the washing-machine. 12 is a sterilizingmachine 1n juxtaposition With the rinsingmachine. These three machines are placed in juxtaposition, so that a carrier full of bottles may be first washed and then placed in .the rinsing-machine and rinsed and then shoved into the sterilizer part of the device and sterilized. The details will appear. from the following description:

In the tank several vertical guide-rods 15 aresecured, and the carriage 16 is'j mounted by collars 17 slidably on said guide-rods, so that said carriage 16 is vertically movable into and out of the tank. The carriage 16 is a skeleton frame, substantially as shown in Figs 3, 4,`and 6, with the front side thereof open and the bottom, and top formed of angle-irons, so'as to receive and furnish a seat for a bottle-carrier 18, as shown in Fig. 5. This .bottle-carrier is a rectangular skeleton frame with side and bottom bars and with end vertical bars 19, to which is secured a strap 20, having a hole into which the ends of a rod, preferably a round wooden bar 22, may beY mounted removably and between the positions that would be occupied by the bottles 23, as appears in Fig. 5. lThere is one row of bottles 23 on each side of the bar 22, so-thatsaid bar 21 restson the shoulder of the bottles 23 land cooperates with the sides of the carrier against which said bottles rest, and holds them within the carrier from escape while being transported and also when inverted. This carrier is made of a skeleton frame, so that liquid may be freely ypassed through it or it be freely passed through the liquid, and the top is open and the bottles held in yby the rod 22, so that the mouths of the bottles will be free for iiuid to enter the same and also brushes for washing them. A carrier containing such bottles is inserted through the front opening of the carriage 1 6 and pushed back until the bottlecarrier 18 drops down into the seat provided for it by the angle-iron forming the bottom of the carriage. Two bars 25 are placed on each side of the carriage to furnish a slot to receive the ends of therod 21. The slotbetween thesebars is open at the front, so that the carrier, with the ends of the rod 21 protruding therefrom, may be readily slipped. into the carriage. The bars 25 therefore act as a guide in the introduction of the bottlecarrier into the carriage and its removal therefrom and also tend to hold the carrier in place.

A vertical rack-bar 30 is secured to each end of the carriage, as shown in Figs. 1, 3, and 4. These rack-bars mesh with the gearwheels 31, mounted on the shaft 32, extending longitudinallyT through the tank 10, which is actuated by a crank or hand-lever 33. With this hand-lever and the wheels 31 and the rack-bars 30 the carriage 16, containing a carrier full of bottles, may be moved downward into the tank 10 and elevated when desired. The carrier containing the bottles is inserted with the mouths of the bottles downward.

A set of brushes 35 are mounted within the tank in such position that they will enter the bottles as the latter are caused to descend. There is one brush for every bottle. These are held in the right position and also caused to rotate by the shafts 36, on which the brushes are carried that are secured to pinions 37. The shafts extend through and have their bearing in holes in the plates 3S and are held from escape by the nuts S9. The pinions 37 intermesh with each other in series, as shown in Fig. 7. The pinions are arranged in rows extending in two directions rectangularly to each other, and each pinion meshes with every other pinion adjacent to it. These pinions 37 are driven by a pinion 39, that meshes with only one of the pinions 3'7, the other pinions being driven in chains or series from the one pinion 39. In the double device shown in Fig. 7 there are two sets of pinions 37 and there are two driving-pinions 39, which are driven by a single gearwheel 40, secured to the lower end of the shaft 41, having its bearing at its lower end in a cross-bar 42, secured to the walls of the tank 10, and its upper end in the cross-bar 43, similarly secured. The shaft 41 is driven by a bevel-pinion 44 on said shaft and the bevelpinion 45 on a horizontal shaft 46, that is mounted in two bearings 47 and 4S, connected with the end of the tank 10 and driven by the pulley 49.

The foregoing mechanism causes the rapid and constant rotation of eachof the brushes 35. The whole tank is Afilled with water, and when the bottles are moved downward into the tank the brushes 35 enter the bottles, and likewise the water, so that the bottles are readily brushed and cleansed. Thereafter the bottles are elevated by the handle 33 and removed.

While I show one carriage 16 in Fig. 2, two may be simultaneously used, as shown in Figs.

l l l and operating each set of brushes and each carriage is duplicated, one being on one side of the tank 10 and one on the other. The two plates 38 are supported at their inner ends by the cross angle-bars 5l), secured to the side walls of the tank 10, as seen in Figs. 4 and 7. The plates 38 are loosely mounted on said angle-bars, but are held from lateral movement by pins 51, extending from one end of the plates 3S and adapted to (it or drop into corresponding notches in the angle-bars, and pins 52, that pass through corresponding holes in the other ends of the plates 38 and the angle-bars. This renders the plates 33 readily removable by `lirst removing the pinion 39 and then lifting the plate 3S out.

As shown in Figs. 4, 6, and 7, the two carriages and accompanying parts are so mounted that the rack-bars 30 on both earriages mesh with a single set of wheels 31 so that when the handle 33 is operated both of the carriages will be moved, but in opposite directions. Therefore in practice while one set of bottles is forced down into the tank and is being washed the other set of bottles is elevated above the tank and is being removed and a new set of bottles being inserted. W'hen the lever 33 is again operated, the last set of bottles introduced will be forced down into the tank and will be washed, while those previously washed will be elevated so as to be removed. The tank 10 is drained through the hole 53.

The rinsing-tank 11 and the sterilizingtank 12, which are placed in line with the washing-tank, have a hood over them and have steam-pipes 60 entering the saine and which are perforated. A pipe 61 leads from each of said tanks. Said tanks are on supports 62. Lcngitudinally through said rinsing and sterilizing tanks there are two parallel angle-bars 63, forming a track on which the bottle-carrier 1S may be placed and. shoved along after the same has been taken from the carriage 16 in the washing-machine. Said track extends far enough over the wasliing-machine to make it convenient to transfer the bottle-carrier to said track.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A bottle-washing machine including a water-tank, means that holds and conveys bottles into and out of said tank, and rotary brushes mounted in the tank in line with the bottles so as to enter and cleanse the same.

2. A bottle-washing machine including a water-tank, vertical guides in said tank, a carriage mounted movable along said guides, a removable bottle-carrier adapted to be placed in said carriage and hold bottles inverted, and rotary brushes mounted in the tank in a fixed position with reference to said guides so as to enter the bottles. Y

3. A bottle-washing machine including a 4, 6, and 7. The construction for mounting water-tank, a bottle-carrier capable of holdlOO ITO

ing a number of bottles with their mouths exposed and inverted, means for moving said carrier into and out of the tank, and rotary brushes mounted in the tank in line with the bottles so as to enter and cleanse the same.

4. A bottle-washing machine including a water-tank, vertical guides in said tank, a carriage mounted movable along said guides that is open on one side and the bottom and has a horizontal opening-or slot in each end thereof, a bottle-carrier consisting of a frame adapted to be inserted in said carriage and having a bar extending longitudinally through the carrier for holding the bottles in place when inverted, and means for moving said carriage into and out of the tank.

5. A bottle-washing machine including a water-tank, vertical guides in said tank, a carriage mounted movable along .said guides and adapted to hold bottles inverted, a horizontal rack-bar secured to each'end of said cal guides in said tank for guiding the movement of said carriages, a vertical rack-bar secured to each end of each carriage, a shaft extending horizontally through the tank between -the sets of guides for said carriages, gear-wheels on said shaft meshing with the rack-bars on both carriages, means for oscillating said shaft so that said carriages will be simultaneously moved in opposite directions down into and up out ofsaid tank, and brushes in said tank for cleansing the bottles.

7. A bottle-washing machine including a water-tank, means that holds and conveys bottles into and out of the tank in' an inverted position, upwardly-extending shafts `in the water-tank mounted so as to be in direct alinement with each bottle, brushes secured to the upper lend of each shaft so as to enter the bottles as the latter are de ressed, and means secured to said brush-sha ts for rotating them.

8. A bottle-washing machine including a water-tank, means that holds and conveys bottles into and out of the tank in an inverted position, a removable plate mounted in the tank, brush-shafts mounted in said plate and extending upward in alinement with the bottles when the latter are depressed, brushes on said shafts for entering the bottles, and means for rotating said brush-shafts.

9. A bottle-washing machine includingy a water-tank, means that holds and conveys bottles into and out of the tank in an inverted position, a removable plate mounted in the tank, brush-shafts mounted in said plate and extending upward in alinement with the bottles when the latter are depressed, brushes on said shafts for entering the bottles, a pinion secured on each brush-shaft and meshing with the pinions on all the adjacent brushshafts, and means for driving one of said pin- -ions so that through it the brush-shafts are rotated.

In witness whereof I have hereunto aixed my signature in the presence of the witnesses 

